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Hazarth94781yI don't actually. The useful stuff just kinda sticks in the back on my brain when it's really useful and hard to google. Otherwise I just let it go and google it again when the time comes.
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Yes, I maintain what I call as "Today I learned" or "Grindset" note. Everyday for 15 mins I just sit down and write down what I learnt. It can be bug or code snippet or resolution of bug or idea.
I have been doing it for 5 years and it has helped me write blogs for many years. It also serves as my backup notes. -
It depends on what kind of learner you are.
If you can memorize better when writing stuff down, take notes.
Other examples are recording voice notes...
IMHO it helps a lot to have *some* sort of documentation. Might sound stupid, but our job is taxing. It's nice to have a starting point the next day. It's even nicer having a look at what you achieved when the week is seemingly a "I'm too stupid for everything" kind of week and you can look at / hear what you achieved. Small victory laps are always a nice backup.
Plus... when you do a lot of juggling tasks like me, you need the safety net.
Our brain was absolutely not made for concurrency / multi tasking, so it eases dramatically the pain of context switching.
Does any of you write notes about what you learn in your day to day job? I recently covered a colleague that went on vacation because the product was going to be shipped during his vacay and I was assigned to do some tweaks, since I am the only one on that team that also knows frontend apart from him. My job is computer vision and he is a frontend dev, so when I sat to take a look, I started to learn new tricks for frontend and I felt the need to write them down because when I go back to my routine, I will forget them since I won’t use them for computer vision. However, knowing frontend is always handy.. do you guys take notes on stuff you might not touch again but it’s useful to keep somewhere?
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